Glory is not in power.

 

Some days blah, some days we look out on spectacular sunsets. Some mornings we look out on a world without people, nothing stirring, not a car in sight - - as it would be if covid19 had its way?

 

A friend sent me a picture of what was one of my dream cars at the Time, a 1977 red with white vinyl top Coupe DeVille. John Prine was at the wheel, it was his, a recent acquisition he didn't live to long enjoy. I was going to blogpost with, the Cadillac not John, but it's Sunday and I promised a Sunday School lesson of some brief sort. 

So then I'm looking at our Collect for the Day with maybe a different eye

The Collect

Grant, O merciful God, that your Church, being gathered together in unity by your Holy Spirit, may show forth your power among all peoples, to the glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

To show forth thy power? I don't think so. The church is not a military parade of tanks rumbling down Pennsylvania Avenue before the strutting arrogance of Il Duce. Precisely opposite to human evil, and to a powerful church, through Jesus Christ, God shows forth glory not in power, but in weakness, in humility, in vulnerability; in striving for justice and peace among all people, in respecting the dignity of every human being. 

Maybe our post-covid19 world will bring us back to that mind of Christ.

Black Lives Matter & Praise the Lord.

T+